I saw this live... Duffie played this at the Charleston Symphony some years back... it was incredible... one of my most favorite concerts ever and I have been to countless concerts. The energy was off the charts! A Great Talent! A Great Piece of Music!
This is so powerful and overwhelmingly beautiful. It cuts right through every time I hear it! And I just realized that McDuffie is also conducting! What a well-synchronized performance! Absolutely perfect!
When I was an exchanged student in 2011, MN US, I listened to this music a lot and really wanted to watch the live performance. 7 years later, I accomplish it finally.
I close my eyes and am transported. A wonderful piece and an exquisite interpretation. Am I the only one incredulous at the youth of the performers? McDuffie pulls so much out of his instrument and these students! Thank you for posting this!
What an astonishingly accomplished group of young performers! And McDuffie tears into the work without seeming to even raise a sweat while raising the hairs on the back of my neck repeatedly. Glass seems an inexhaustible fountain of masterworks. Gives a whole new meaning to the string orchestra. A million thanks to all concerned.
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@@robertmcduffie2768 Dear Robert, it is a great honor to hear from you. Your performance of Philip Glass ' Second Violin Concerto (original recording with Marin Alsop) I consider it a REFERENCE. I dream of a THIRD VIOLIN CONCERTO that Glass would write for you! I, Dymchenko Igor Alexandrovich, live in Russia, in the city of Togliatti, in our country, almost no one has heard of Philip Glass. I've been listening to Glass ' music since I was 14 (I'm 33 now). For about TEN YEARS, I thought about His music and came to the conclusion that He, Glass, is not just a Good, but A GREAT COMPOSER. One of the very first pieces of Glass that I heard : Koyaniskatsi. Then the second symphony, which I immediately understood. The third one, too. The fifth symphony-from the beginning was incomprehensible to me. Next, the first violin concerto, with your performance - very much remembered. The pinnacle of Glass ' music is THE NINTH SYMPHONY, PARTITA FOR VIOLIN. I single out THREE LIVING COMPOSERS: Philip Glass, Arvo Part, S. A. Gubaidulina. These are great Composers. I know of no other living man equal to These. My email: schantanu@mail.ru
@@robertmcduffie2768 I have listened to this piece numerous times over the past couple of years and it knocks me out every time! I have also tried listening to other versions, but none can compare withe the artistry and energy of this performance! (And this from a former rock n roll listener!) I love Glass and you bring his works into an entirely higher dimension! Bravo! BTW, I live in Sturgeon Bay, WI - North of Green Bay.
Me encanta la sensación que escuchar esto deja en mi alma y corazón. Es algo que no se cómo explicar, pero solo puedo dar gracias por esta obra maestra.
I thought I had checked out Philip Glass. I feel such a dickhead. He's off the scale brilliant - interpretations like this help! The only good news is that I seem to discover yet another monumental work of art by the man every day. I find his music sublime and challenging, with the challenging slowly revealing as brilliant also. You never stop learning as I always say to the children I teach.
If you have not already experienced the music from the film Powwaqqatsi, I encourage you to do so. Deeply powerful, and personally very moving. Has been for decades.
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I first heard Glass in the mid-70s as a college student. That was him and others on a bunch of Farfisas. I found it interesting in an annoying sort of way, but not attractive. I heard an interview with him many years later that he was never happy with that situation due to the limits of the gear mostly, but he must have been satisfied enough with results to continue, thank God. Then, 10 years later, I heard Koyaanisqatsi and liked it, but not wildly (my tastes hadn't changed that much, his orchestration had, letting his music start to really shine through). From then on, every successive piece of his I heard I found more and more compelling. To me, he is one of the giants of the past century, refusing to let the beauty with be overwhelmed by virtuosity for its own sake.
Its a pity that at the three quietest bits we hear, first a falsetto baby crying, then a nice forte cough, then a staccato door slamming. Who takes a baby to a classical concert? Please comment if you didn't hear this, its so unbelievable I'm worried about my own hearing.
If you have the time and money to be at one of these and you sneeze or cough this loud, do consider sticking your tongue out and then biting down as hard as you possibly can.
Chloe Hanslip was playing the first violin concerto in Edinburgh earlier this year, and I though, "Yeah Chloe Hanslip, but Glass??" so I gave it a listen and a bit to my surprise I thought it was magnificent. Otherwise I would never have found my way here. This is superb too, maybe more so, we'll see how it beds down - so much reflection of the first concerto in it. Sorry Philip Glass fans. I've been labouring under a bit of a misconception about your man for a while - sorted now.
In 100 years time Beethoven will still be performed throughout the world. But nobody will have heard of Philip Glass his music having been totally forgotten. Anton Rubinstein is the 19th century equivalent of Philip Glass: world famous and very popular in his day but now nobody plays Anton Rubinstein's music.
I hate this snobby argument. As if the pinnacle of music was reaches 300 years ago and all we can do now is archive and keep it propped up on dwindling audiences and diminishing public interest. Keep your Beethoven.
@@username7777771 This shows how little you know about music. Beethoven lived around 200 years ago not 300. Hate as much you want because Glass's music will totally forgotten before long.
@@username7777771 This shows how little you know about music. Beethoven lived around 200 years ago not 300. Maybe I have something to be snobbish about in that I know more about music than you seem to do.
It's not soft as Vivaldi, it's not weird as Penderecki, it's not heavy as Rachmaninov, it's not bombastic as Orf. It's the perfect soup, with the right measurements of all the ingredients. We as audience are the grain of salt for the finishing touch.
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@@robertmcduffie2768 very well , I live in Amsterdam , mijn email: beetilly@gmail.com . thank you for your attention , succes with your projects . thank you for your great performance ,
@@robertmcduffie2768 I am blessed to have stumbled upon this magnificent performance. I have never heard a performer and composer in a tighter union! Alas, I live in Toronto and doubt you'll ever be able to visit us. In the meanwhile ❤❤❤❤❤ from Canada!
Amazing performance! The lead violin part is so demanding. How did glass write this if he is a pianist? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No._2_(Glass)
I just read a section of Glass's autobiography where he talks about this. While at Julliard he realized he needed to learn a bit of violin in order to write for the instrument. One of his friends there was a violinist and taught him for a while. He said he never became even a "decent" violinist but he learned enough to write good music for it.
@@raamella It's not a useful word in music crit. eg. saying Einstein is a 'genius' stops us from questioning his model, which is incompatible with sub-atomic physics. Similarly, saying Glass is a 'genius' doesn't add anything to our discourse about Minimalism, or film music, or orchestration. It's just a fan-word.
Magnifique musique composée en 2010. Il faut avoir beaucoup d'ambition pour emprunter à Vivaldi le titre d'une de ses œuvres maîtresse. Philippe Glass l'a fait et franchement, il n'a pas à rougir de l'inévitable comparaison qu'on fera entre les deux. J'écoute cette pièce deux ou trois fois par semaine depuis que je l'ai découverte. Et encore au moment où j'écris ces lignes. Je n'en reviens pas comme c'est beau. Et de penser que le compositeur est vivant et qu'on pourrait le croiser dans les rues de New York, ça me fait tout drôle.
The electronic keyboard ruined the performance for me. I gave up after a few minutes. Luckily I'll keep enjoying Giddon Kremer's CD for the rest of my life.❤
At first I thought it was a harpsichord. But I couldn’t find it. Then I read your comment and saw a young man behind the orchestra dressed in a shirt without a jacket who had a laptop computer. I assume he was running a music program (like Logic).
28:16 : I find the background noise (electronic tic-tac) that's been going on for a while really annoying. Especially when there is no instrument playing to "cover" its noise.
It spoils the whole effort. This concert is dreadful compared with either Robert McDuffie's version conducted by Marin Allsop, or the interpretation by Gidon Kremer - both of which are excellent.
Perhaps the synthesiser player/performer centre back of the stage, behind the soloist might provide a slight clue as to from whence and where the electronic music emanates; Duh.
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If nothing else, you tube is the place not where one comes to enjoy music and if not just move on to another composition; it is a perch for whining harpies to register their discontent and odious contempt for the piece or the composer.